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Evaluation of Pollutant Transport in Rivers and Coastal Waters

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Regional Approaches to Water Pollution in the Environment

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Recently, popularised by the Bruntland Commission [36], the concept of sustainable development has been introduced and has become the objective of a vast number of people trying to find policy guideline and rules that will put the environment into the centre of economics as well as the basis for development considerations.

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  1. DLO Winand Staring Centre for Integrated Land, Soil and Water Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    P. E. Rijtema

  2. Institute of Hydrodynamics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic

    V. Eliáš

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Todini, E. (1996). Evaluation of Pollutant Transport in Rivers and Coastal Waters. In: Rijtema, P.E., Eliáš, V. (eds) Regional Approaches to Water Pollution in the Environment. NATO ASI Series, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0345-6_10

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